Disaster & Emergency Medicine Project

Web Site Changes

This is where we'll announce the most recent additions to our web site. If you've visited us before and want to know what's changed, take a look here first.

In response to the change in funding the Project has become known as the Disaster and Emergency Medicine Program. The Program is currently active in two parts.

 

The first is continuing on with the local aspects of G.P. / Nurse / Emergency service liaison and fine tuning the networking and call-out process. The Program was prepresented at the local disaster planning meeting and has become an integral part of the local disaster management plan.

The second part of the Program has been to continue to develop the training of medical and nursing personnel in the skills of mass casualty triage, in the necessary initial lifesaving protocols and in the skills required to assist in the management of disasters.

The Disaster and Emergency Medicine Program (DEMP) is also sponsoring a new organisation called the ... Australian National Association of First Responders and Volunteers (ANAFRAV).

See open letter on current status of DEMP.

[10/4/1997]

As of 10th April 1997, the Project has been notified that the Divisions of General Practice Project Funding Advisory Panel has not recommended that the Project be refunded.

 

This is not surprising given the scale of the Project and the change in Government funding policy which, in effect, restricts the financial support for Division Projects to a level based on the projected Infrastructure budget of any given General Practice Division. Even a large General Practice Division would find it difficult to obtain funding for a Project of this size and still have funding allowance for other Projects that the Division may want to undertake. We are now looking at alternative funding to both continue the excellent service established locally within the Sherbrooke & Pakenham Division boundaries and to disseminate the model and training aspects ot the Project to the other Divisions of General Practice within Australia.

[28/2/1997]

28th February, 1997 : Disaster & Emergency Medicine Project Establishes Internet Presence courtesy of Medicine Australia Online Journal

See the press release for more details.

Journal Articles

These are the Journal articles we've submitted over the last year.

• Submitted October, 1996 -- Australian Doctor -- Published February, 1997
• Submitted January, 1997 -- Australian Family Physician

Recent Media Coverage of the Disaster & Emergency Medicine Project

• A new disaster strategy for GPs, Australian Doctor, 14th February, 1997

Send mail to john_drinkwater@onaustralia.com.au with questions or comments about this web site.
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Last modified: December 07, 1997